Persistent Feeder Component for Real-Time Social Media Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In cloud computing environments, conventional database management techniques make it difficult for users to efficiently track and receive timely updates about the activities of other users, leading to inefficient and incomplete reporting, especially in social networking systems where real-time information sharing is crucial.
Innovation Solution
A persistent feeder component is implemented in a user interface to display feed items from online social networks in near real-time, allowing users to monitor multiple social media feeds simultaneously without navigating away from their current web page, with features like filtering, customizable parameters, and secure authentication using OAuth.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional database management techniques are used, then system simplicity is maintained, but users cannot efficiently track and receive timely updates about other users' activities
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing feed subscriptions and setting up notification mechanisms in advance. When a user subscribes to a feed, the system proactively monitors the associated data sources and prepares to deliver updates automatically, eliminating the need for users to repeatedly query for changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces feed components and notification intermediaries that mediate between data sources and users. These intermediaries subscribe to data sources, receive updates, and distribute them to interested users, creating an efficient many-to-many communication channel without requiring direct user-to-user tracking.
2Loss of information
If users manually navigate to check multiple social media feeds, then complete information coverage is achieved, but time efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple social media feed sources into a single unified feed component displayed on the current web page. Users can subscribe to multiple feeds (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) and receive all updates in one consolidated view, eliminating the need to navigate to multiple separate sites while maintaining complete information coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The feed component is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple social media platforms simultaneously. A single component instance can subscribe to and display feeds from various sources, providing multi-functional access to diverse information channels without requiring separate navigation or multiple specialized tools.
3Loss of information
If feed items are displayed without filtering, then information completeness is maintained, but information relevance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The feed component implements dynamic filtering capabilities that adapt to user needs. Users can configure real-time filters based on keywords, sources, types of updates, and other criteria. The system dynamically applies these filters to the incoming feed stream, allowing users to adjust their information preferences without losing access to the complete underlying data source.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing a persistent feeder component in a user interface to display in near real-time feed items when received in information feeds of online social networks. The feed items can come from feeds of multiple online social networks to be displayed in a single feeder component, and the feeder component may be configured to display proximate to each feed item a graphical indicator identifying the information feed of the feed item. The feeder component can be displayed in one of multiple display formats. The feeder component may also be configured to track activity on an online social network and display a notification when activity on the online social network has met one or more milestones determined by the user.